Link Roundup for week ending 5/11/2011

Jacob
Kaplan-Moss
has a beautiful article on concrete inheritance vs abstract models
for inheritance. Must read!

Charles
Leifer,
the current maintainer of Django Snippets has an exhaustive blog
post on setting up search using the Solr backend for
Haystack.

Chris Heilmann has an interesting
video
on "Reasons to be Cheerful: being a web developer is awesome!"

Piotr
Malinski
has a blog post on how to use web based image editors within django
apps.

Derek
Gathright
shows how to use YQL and Javascript to write a Twitter OAuth client.

How WooMe is
using
django and postgresql and scaling up to tens of thousands of queries
per second.

Learn Python The Hard Way, a beginner Python book written primarily
by Zed Shaw is now up for
sale
in both e-book and dead tree editions.

Google releases an Apache module to run websites faster called
mod_pagespeed.
The module performs some optimizations on the caching, round-trip,
payload size etc to improve page speeds. Should be an interesting
weekend experiment to see how it copes with dynamic applications.

Here at agiliq, Javed wrote a wonderful
post
on "7 reasons why you should switch to Vim".

Thank you for reading the Agiliq blog. This article was written by thejaswi on Nov 3, 2010 in
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